Wesley clegg



2 Sheets-Sheet 1. W. GLEGG. VBLOGIPEDB (No Model.)

Patented May 6, 1890.

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UNITED STATES PATENT UFFICE.

IVESLEY CLEGG, OF BRADFORD, ENGLAND.

VELOCIPEDE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 427,048, dated May 6, 1890.

Application filed October 12, 1889- Serial No. 326,766. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WEsLnY CLEGG,aS11bj ect of the Queen of Great Britain, residing at Bradford, England, have invented new and useful Improvements relating to Velocipedes, of which the following is a specificaion.

This invention relates to improvements in the velocipede for which Letters Patent of the United States were granted to me, No. 389,200, dated 11th day of September, 1888, the object of my present improvements being to provide more efficient means for mounting the slid ing sleeves on their respective posts and for connecting them to the main frame and aux iliary arm for preventing dust or dirt from getting into the working parts and for connectin g the main frame and auxiliary arm together.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of what is known as a reardriven safety-bicycle provided with my improvements. Fig. 2 is a vertical section showing my improved means of mounting the sliding sleeve on the front or steering post and of connecting the main frame and auxiliary arm thereto. Fig. 3 is a plan of the same. Fig. 4 is a side elevation of the joint for connecting together the main frame and auxiliary arm according to my present improvements. Fig. 5 is a plan of the same. Fig. 6 is a side elevation, and Fig. 7 is a plan, of the center or joint portion of the main frame. Figs. 8 and 9 are similar views of the center or joint portion of the auxiliary arm.

Similar letters are used to those employed for indicating corresponding parts in my said former patent.

According to my present invention, which I will first describe by reference to Figs. 1, 2, and 3, I incase the spring b on the steering post 0 Within a tubular extension .2 of the sliding sleeve 2', which works over the upper end of the sleeve q, the bearing-surface thus formed between the extension 2 and the sleeve q obviously increasing when the sleeves z and q approach each other, as they do when the bicycle is in use, the spring I) being then compressed between the upper surface of the sleeve q and the lower surface of the sleeve 2. The arrangement of the spring I) and sleeve z is the same for thesaddle-post f, the lower end of the extension 2 sliding over the collar 0, Fig. 1. The front end we of the main illustrated in Fig. 3, fitted with a bolt a a coned nut a and a lock-nut a, and the ends of the auxiliary arm 'n n are similarly attached, respectively, to the sleeve (1 and to the sleeve .2 on the saddle-post. It is evident that the arrangement of the joints 0' r 7* may be reversed-that is to say, the forked or female portions of the joints could be formed on the main frame and auxiliary arm and the necks or male portions on the sleeves.

I will now describe by reference to Figs. 4 to 9 the means I employ for connecting the main frame and auxiliary arm at the point Where they cross each other. The main frame is formed with a swell 19 so as to allow of an opening b being made sufficiently large to admit of the passage of the arm a n, and a narrow opening 19 leads from the opening b and serves to receive the flattened center part c of the arm n a when the latter has been passed through the opening 12 sufficiently far, the two central parts 11 and o of the main frame and auxiliary alum-respectively, being then secured together by means of a bolt (V, a coned nut (1 and a lock-nut d Ball-bearings or ordinary nuts can, however, be em-= ployed in any of the joints or connections instead of coned nuts.

Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is- 1. In a velocipede having a frame consisting of a main portion or continuous backbone and an auxiliary arm crossing and moving upon each other and having the main frame connected to the steering-post and the auxiliary arm to the steering and back posts of the velocipede by spring -connections,- the sleeves 2, formed with extensions adapted to inclose springs, in combination with the joints 9" r 1' for connecting the main frame mm and auxiliary arm n 'n' to the spring sliding sleeves, substantially as hereinbefore described, and illustrated in Figs. 1, 2, and 3 of the accompanying drawings.

2. The described means for effecting the connection of the main frame or auxiliary arm,

consisting of an opening in the main frame large enough to allow of the passage therethrough of the auxiliary arm and a narrower opening leading therefrom adapted t0 receive the flattened central part c of the auxiliary arm,the two parts being then connected together by a bolt,a cone-nut, and a look-nut or other suitable connection, all substantially as hereinbefore described, and illustrated in Figs. -ct to 9 of the accompanying drawings.

VESLEY CLEGG. \Vitnesses:

II. F. KILLICK, FRANK II. IIILL. 

